I’m a native Minnesotan, PhD student, first-generation college student and have taught in higher education for over a decade. My love for leadership and learning started at a young age due to an insatiable curiosity and loving parents who constantly took me to my small town local library. I’ve lived multiple lives: a rock journalist at the young age of 16 interviewing musicians on tour buses, as an undergrad living with aboriginal tribes in Australia, to being a teacher and university...